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<h1 class="title">kmap2qmap</h1>
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<p><code>kmap2qmap</code> is a tool to generate keymaps for use on Embedded Linux. The source files have to be in standard Linux <code>kmap</code> format that is e.g&#x2e; understood by the kernel's <code>loadkeys</code> command. This means you can use the following sources to generate <code>qmap</code> files:</p>
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<li>The <a href="http://lct.sourceforge.net/">Linux Console Tools (LCT)</a> project.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.x.org/">Xorg</a> X11 keymaps can be converted to the <code>kmap</code> format with the <code>ckbcomp</code> utility.</li>
<li>Since <code>kmap</code> files are plain text files, they can also be hand crafted.</li>
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<p>The generated <code>qmap</code> files are size optimized binary files.</p>
<p><code>kmap2qmap</code> is a command line program, that needs at least 2 files as parameters. The last one will be the generated <code>.qmap</code> file, while all the others will be parsed as input <code>.kmap</code> files. For example:</p>
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  kmap2qmap i386<span class="operator">/</span>qwertz<span class="operator">/</span>de<span class="operator">-</span>latin1<span class="operator">-</span>nodeadkeys<span class="operator">.</span>kmap <span class="keyword">include</span><span class="operator">/</span>compose<span class="operator">.</span>latin1<span class="operator">.</span>inc de<span class="operator">-</span>latin1<span class="operator">-</span>nodeadkeys<span class="operator">.</span>qmap

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<p><code>kmap2qmap</code> does not support all the (pseudo) symbols that the Linux kernel supports. If you are converting a standard keymap you will get a lot of warnings for things like <code>Show_Registers</code>, <code>Hex_A</code>, etc.: you can safely ignore those.</p>
<p>It also doesn't support numeric symbols (e.g&#x2e; <code>keycode 1 = 4242</code>, instead of <code>keycode 1 = colon</code>), since these are deprecated and can change from one kernel version to the other.</p>
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